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Report for February 2016

Report Date
February 2016

Report by Susan McKeown for Bruce Nelson (Portfolio Owner)

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Section Two: Projects Not Started

Section Three: Projects In Progress

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects 

 

Section One: Programme Commentary, RAG and Resources Update

Commentary

The CSCE Programme / Portfolio is overall GREEN, as all started projects are now delivered and closed and there are proposed projects for the remaining 58 days.

Please note that the project RAG status is following the revised guidelines: A one-page summary of the IS RAG status indicators is available on this page.

Although the CSCE projects related to the University's Virtual Edinburgh programme of work have been delivered, IS continue to support the Virtual Edinburgh programme through both providing PM Consultancy and support and through work being completed under Innovation project API017 Virtual Edinburgh Foundations which is being funded by the University's CIO. Colleagues can follow this project's progress on its website.

AP56-034 Ring Fenced Allocation for CSCE: Please see section two, Projects Not Started, for proposed use of remaining ring-fenced days in 15/16.

Resources

The agreed budget is 156 days. The table below erroneously states the budget as 160 days. There are 58 days remaining in the Ring-fenced budget.

Please see PRICCL 31 for the Mid-Year position of the Programme.

RAG & Forward Look

Notes on Current Plans for 16/17

  • The work on the Chemistry Scientific Instrument Management Business Case in 14/15 has found that if the recommendations are followed then no work from IS Applications would be needed in 15/16, however potential integration work with Finance and Grouper may be needed in 16/17.
  • As the University Seminar Site is still in pilot phase, and will be until summer 2016, time must be set aside in 16/17 to either turn the pilot into a full service with proper documentation and agreed support levels, or to decommission the site.

Section Two: Projects Not Started

Project InfoProgramme Manager's Commentary

AP56-034 15/16 Ring Fenced Allocation for CSCE

GREEN

There is now expected to be a matching demand for the SCE Ring-Fenced days in 15/16 to availability. It is likely that the Athena SWAN implementation project would take up the Ring-Fenced allocation. Other work may be done where supplementary funding is agreed.

  • Athena SWAN - Payroll have suspended their project Automation of Maternity and Paternity Pay Calculations, which was expected to include the additional data fields needed for maternity for Athena SWAN. These issues are noted in PPP001 (login required), under which code the Athena SWAN analysis is being undertaken. It is currently believed that it will be possible to progress the Athena SWAN component, however this will still need some input from HR and changes to the Oracle application. Update on 05/02/16: The Programme Manager has provisionsally secured resources in Payroll and Pensions and HR Systems to support delivery of this work and following confirmation of the revised estimate with the Portfolio Owner on 18/02/16, this project will be initiated.  
  • Biological Sciences - have raised a request to support Biosciences Service and Data Hosting via IS Research Services. This would involve enabling an export of metadata records to PURE, and documenting the issues arising in linking metadata records, data files and open access publications. The action is currently with Biology to confirm if funding can be released for a short 10d technical investigation into the feasibility of what is possible, and if there are options. Note: Programme Owner has agreed that 10d could be released for this if it can be done in 10d and there is no expectation of any future funding from this allocation. Update on 05/02/16: Programme manager has requested resource to carry out the investigation  
  • APIs - there is an interest in developing APIs to centrally held data, if there is a good benefit case for this then work could be undertaken in 15/16. There is a potential to supplement the funding of an Innovation Fund proposal by the remaining 6d (green circle in resources table above), which is currently being investigated. Update on 05/02/16: Programme manager has raised the CSCE portfolio's stated interest in working in this area with the Project Lead on the Innovation Fund Enterprise Data Services project API004 and is now in regular contact to ensure CSCE interests are taken into consideration with the potential to using some ring-fenced days to support delivery to production of CSCE priority APIs. Any use of days will need agreement from the Portfolio owner.
  • The Programme may support some gap analysis work with the UWP team to help progress the College's use of EdWeb

 

Section Three: Projects in Progress

No current projects in Progress as all started projects have been delivered and closed.

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

 

 

Section Four: Closed or Withdrawn Projects

Project InfoProject Managers Commentary

SCE005 - Virtual Edinburgh Business Case Support

Category: Discretionary

Report by Sheila Fraser

This project was closed on 11-Sep-15.

Please see the Completion Report for further information.

SCE007 - Digitising Scotland Planning

Category: Discretionary

Report by Sheila Fraser

This project was closed on 21-Dec-15

Please see the Completion Report for further information.

SCE008 - University Seminar Site Enhancements Category: Discretionary

Report by Morna Findlay

This project was closed on 15 Jan 16.

Please see the Completion Report for further information.

SCE009 - Virtual Edinburgh Scoping Category: Discretionary

Report by Morna Findlay

This project was closed on 29 Jan 16

Please see the Completion Report for further information.

 

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